Friday, December 7, 2012

Nutritional Psychiatry Blackballed by U.S. Psychiatric Establishment

By
Michael Gottlieb, B.S.

Ask
your doctor about minerals and supplements for your mental health

In
1945, two Canadians psychiatrists—Dr. Abram Hoffer and Dr. Humphrey Osmond—began
treating Canadian soldiers returning from Japanese prisons in treatment
protocols for severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia and depression.
They provided a healthy diet including avoidance of sugars and sweets with
added minerals. They sought to publish their research and clinical experiences
in the U.S. around 1955 but were blackballed by the medical and psychiatric
journals who feared losing advertising dollars from the pharmaceutical
companies who were bringing out their first generation of psychiatric
medications.

By
now some three quarters of a million Canadians have been successfully treated
via nutritional psychiatry (aka orthomolecular psychiatry). It has virtually no
side-effects vs. the metabolic poisons touted here in the U.S. and yet it
remains virtually unknown and unused.

The
foods we eat and the liquids we drink have a profound effect upon our brain
chemistry. Certain supplements of vitamins (some in mega doses) and minerals
and amino acids have demonstrated remarkable healing effects upon severe mental
illness. Often a nutritional psychiatrist will use nutritional psychiatry along
with a sharply reduced dosage of traditional psychiatric medications. But here
in the U.S. the psychiatrists and medical doctors have no education, no
training in nutritional healing. It would be, alas, the blind leading the
blind. And the consequences are severe toxic side effects (Toxic Psychiatry by Dr. Peter Breggin) along with the
non-compliance of many patients due to these toxic side effects.

The
brilliant, life saving work of Dr. Hoffer and Dr. Osmmond appears to be
virtually totally ignored here in the U.S. The consequences are severe.

If
the mass media is either ignorant of nutritional psychiatry or muzzled by fears
of retaliation from the powerful pharmaceutical industry, what happens to those
who desperately need healing? Apparently, making money and profits supersede
any priority of bringing healing to the patients.

Short-term
use of chemical medications may be appropriate for certain individuals. Dr. Carl
Pfiefer added to our knowledge of the biochemistry of Schizophrenia and how to
utilize zinc and manganese to control elevated copper levels. Some 70% of
schizophrenics have elevated copper levels in their brains, 20% have depressed
levels. The 2nd benefit is that symptoms are alleviated but not
suppressed so patients are not drugged into submission.

Editor’s Note: The team at New York
City Voices encourages you to talk to your doctor and pharmacist about all
possible treatments for your health, including minerals and supplements. Please
always consult with your doctor and pharmacist before trying any new
treatments.